Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8b74160fa8fbacd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c249e32517c05710013b22b4a4da7212 SHA-1: 7aaba26d04fff76886dbf81d0412a110e92a63aa SHA-256: c8b74160fa8fbacd4fffcc49de71260ddd313fef086aafe05ac7843a7125454b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm and a social-engineering lure to install browser extensions or updates. The embedded URLs, while many are unknown or benign, point towards a distribution mechanism for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36801097497.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davolilaxuxegifimetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/62547669668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livewireeventz.com/userfiles/file/89898234099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/tekinubagipomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/denusatilanepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/22300054452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krr-nfe.com/suratnfe/UserFiles/File/34815350562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/27529000407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a79ae3fe06---70302694592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/50644187663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/25290210484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bresky.cz/res/file/losofibawuveposoripaloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8go58vv73tarsf004igjovvm5/tutivemokawiwewexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901d46f9fddaad2925ace8a8209d89eb/76613002290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94218280610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/sixezodurivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/65565967962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/xedigiragubodeloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energyexcess.com/userfiles/file/xapedolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/76983455814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/69104240948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/93448368441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=supersu+binary+files+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACC 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 36c6808f7327c12b3ef9c210346a6dc342586bcc42919d0a34f543162d25008d
font_02_sfnt_off000103ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EF 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 212f343e9a2b5b752f9b132f1d07e27034cdd976ed13ab5e0af3bf0c1f8e855e